NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 590 and 28GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5090 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 's Advantages

Lower TDP (365W vs 500W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 's Advantages

Released 13 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (28GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (280.0GB/s vs 164.0GB/s)

19968 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 590

1.244 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5090 +8195%

103.2 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 590

VS

GeForce RTX 5090

Graphics Card

Mar 2011

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

854 MHz

Memory Clock

2500 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

28GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR7

384bit

Memory Bus

448bit

164.0GB/s

Bandwidth

280.0GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

160

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

20480

64

TMUs

640

48

ROPs

192

-

Tensor Cores

640

-

RT Cores

160

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

768 KB

L2 Cache

88 MB

Theoretical Performance

19.46 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

483.8 GPixel/s

38.91 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

1613 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

103.2 TFLOPS

1244 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

103.2 TFLOPS

155.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1.613 TFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

GB202

GF110-351-A1

GPU Variant

GB202

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

0 nm

3 billion

Transistors

Unknown

520 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Board Design

365W

TDP

500W

750 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

3x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

2.0

CUDA

9.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.7

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